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Two Israelis receive a poster-size greeting -- written in Hebrew -- from Paul Calesnick, a resident of the Madlyn and Leonard Abramson Center for Jewish Life, during a recent performance by the roving Israeli Scouts Friendship Caravan, a young singing group comprised of 10 Israeli boys and girls.

The Zoning Hearing Board of Lower Moreland Township will need to hear more testimony before deciding whether to allow cell-phone carrier T-Mobile to build a 130-foot cell tower on the grounds of Shalom Memorial Park and Forest Hills Cemetery near Byberry and Pine roads. At a Sept. 25 hearing held at the Huntingdon Valley Library, angry citizens protested the proposed...

A crowd of supporters, a contingent of protesters and the ubiquitous curious onlooker swarmed around leading GOP contender Rudy Giuliani and his wife, Judith, as they arrived in South Philadelphia, then made their way through the crowd and up to the counter at Geno's Steaks. Giuliani reportedly ordered a "Whiz wit," a steak served with Cheese Whiz and onion fries...

Jonathan Golluber, president of Silver Lining Home Health Care in Wyncote, recently visited Abington Memorial Hospital -- and Marcia Nacht -- to participate in challah-delivery services provided by the Joan Grossman Center for Chaplaincy and Healing, a program of Jewish Family and Children's Service of Greater Philadelphia.

Jerry Ehrlich spent roughly two months treating patients at a makeshift medical camp in Darfur, Sudan. Elaine Webster and Amanda Dawson work here to tutor a refugee family from Ethiopia. And Mary Yee provides language services to immigrant and refugee students in the Philadelphia School District. These were just some of the outreach efforts lauded by HIAS and Council Migration...